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by Ryan Mulloy staff writer

Making mixes of your favorite music has been possible for the last few decades. It started with taking a record and copying the songs onto a tape. As the years went by, compact discs were developed for more space and convenience in listening to music. With a tape recorder and a receiver, it was just as easy to make a mix of your favorite music onto a tape. The one question remained. however: When can we start recording

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Burning music CDs can be a little more work. If you have two drives for your CDs, you can copy a CD rather easily. If you're using MP3 files, songs recorded on your computer in digital format. you have some work ahead of you. Many programs, like the popular "Toast'' program by Roxio, require you to convert your file into one of two kinds of file. Roxio is a leading company in the production of programs for CD burning technology. They bundled their software with more than 20 million PCs last year and are now working in conjunction with RealNetworks, the developers of programs like Real Player and Real Jukebox. MP3 files can either be formatted into an AlFF file or a WAV file, so that they can be burnt onto a CD. This task is rather costly to one's hard drive, as formatting expands an average 5 MB file to somewhere around 50 MBs onto CDs? her lonely life and how just one person change her attitude. She reveals to the Jeader the strength that she draws from an uotraditional teacher who pays attention. cares. and encourages her. And. she shows the reader how all that changes her life.

Though the •'Toast'' program and several others operate this way, Roxio's highly rated •~y CD Creator" makes things very easy to work with. The program does not require any technical work in preparing files or CDs. "Easy CD Creator" allows the user to pull his files from the hard drive and place them directly onto the CD.

Since computers are all different pieces of machinery, there are hundreds of programs that bum CDs and some only work with certain computers. Apple's "iTunes" is quite popular for the Macintosh and one of the most highly rated programs for that operating system. Many programs are bundled with new PCs or Macs. These programs include ''Toast." •~t CD Creator," ''MusicMatch," and many other different programs.

That time is now. In the late 1990s burning CDs became a reality. Essentially, burning a CD means siinply laser burning information into a blank CD for data use or even musical purposes.

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Data CDs have quickly eliminated the uses of the floppy disk. A CD-R, a blank disc that you burn once, can hold up to 650 megabytes of memory, as opposed to the floppy's 1.4 megabytes. There are now also CDRs that can hold an extra 50 megabytes of memory. The advanced CD-R, called CD-RW, can hold the same information, but can be burned and erased up to 1,000 times.

The most popular use for CD-Rs, though, is for music. CD-Rs can hold either 74 or 80 minutes of music, depending on the brand and the model of CDR. CD-RWs for music have also been developed and are currently selling, though they are not compatible with all players.

The process itself is fairly siinple. John Brogan. a junior communications major, says, "CD burning is very easy and only takes a few moments to learn." Burning a data CD is the easier of the two, with most CD burning programs. For example, if you write a paper or save a few pictures, all you really have to do is point and click. It's a matter of following the on-

Almost 20 million recordable CD drives are predicted to sell in the United States alone this year, three times as many as last year. Though it takes a little bit of work to figure out. over the last few years, CD burning has become mainstream and is only looking to expand. At least if you cannot figure it out right away, you will have plenty of faulty CD-Rs that would make great coasters.